Doug Ford

Seeking to re-frame climate policy as a matter of economic justice, not just emissions targets, the party came out of its recent convention with an aggressive policy position that's likely to influence federal Leader Jagmeet Singh in the coming election.

Protesters, joined by faith leaders and members of Extinction Rebellion Toronto, took over the intersection of Yonge and Dundas streets in downtown Toronto on June 10 as part of a demonstration to declare a climate crisis.

Budget cuts by the Ontario government may bring an end to the use of legal aid support to help vulnerable people fight the global climate change emergency. Doug Ford's government triggered the cuts in its first provincial budget last April as it slashed funding to Legal Aid Ontario by 30 per cent.

As she prepares to leave politics, the Liberal MPP for Ottawa—Vanier and longtime civil-liberties advocate reflects on her 2018 showdown with the premier and the prospects for democracy in Ontario.

Conservative house leader Todd Smith said they had "achieved so much." 

The federal Liberal government is providing $15 million over four years to rescue the 50 Million Tree Program, which is the first Ontario-based environmental initiative to be funded through the Low Carbon Economy Fund. The fund had earmarked $420 million for the province to provide to energy efficiency programs and other measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

Andrew Scheer is promising that a Conservative government would negotiate a deal to eliminate trade barriers among Canada's provinces.

Even with provinces and Ottawa not always seeing eye-to-eye these days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged on Friday, May 31, 2019, that his federal Liberal government would keep working with municipalities to deal with the effects of extreme weather, housing shortages and climate change.

Premier Doug Ford's government is facing vehement opposition from municipalities across Ontario for proposing to weaken legislation protecting endangered species in order to allow mass development to occur in critical habitat for wildlife.

Steven Del Duca has come up with a series of ambitious plans to rebuild and modernize the Ontario Liberal Party. He wants to create a 124-member caucus that has at least 30 candidates under the age of 30, and half of whom are women. He wants to find a way to respect taxpayer's money while also investing in Ontario — something he believes his government lost track off in their last days in office.

Premier Doug Ford's Ontario government has cut 70 per cent of provincial funding to a non-profit organization that helps more than three dozen Indigenous communities protect endangered wildlife and natural resources, National Observer has learned. 

The NDP wants Ontario to declare a climate change emergency but Premier Doug Ford's response is to rail against the federal carbon tax as "one of the biggest climate crises right now."

Four days after Doug Ford's government spelled out 20-pages of weakened protections for Ontario's endangered species in an omnibus housing bill, an 18,000-page report by over 450 scientists culminated in one shocking fact: over one million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.

Doug Ford was all smiles as he welcomed his "great ally" Jason Kenney, four days into his mandate as Alberta's newly-elected premier, and committed to continue their fight against the federal carbon tax. 

On Thursday, the leader of the Ontario Greens is giving gas stations an alternative sticker that is free and reveals the costs of climate change to counter Ford's "tax-payer funded partisan stickers." Mike Schreiner's stickers display the fact that climate costs in Canada could reach as high as $91 billion per year by 2050.